ShoWest kicked off today. This is the convention where, among other things, the studios trot out their summer tent pole product to theater owners to get them juiced about the coming blockbuster season. They hand out awards so that celebrities will show up and they do it all in Vegas so that booze and hookers and [...]

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It was a fairly busy weekend for movies at the LiC Hollywood offices. On Saturday I caught The Bank Job (reviewed below) and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a pair of likeable if unspectacular entertainments. On Sunday night I saw Married Life, a darkly comic noir with Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Pierce Brosnan and [...]

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